“The Essence of Us”

Graduate Art Show (2025)

Atomatonia (2025) and Emporium Memoriam (2025) were selected by Brooklynn Gray to show at “The Essence of Us” 2025 graduate thesis at 505 Gallery in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. This show was meant to highlight the artistic perspectives of black artists growing up in New Mexico.

 Imeh Angela is an artist, dancer and sommelier in training from Albuquerque, New Mexico. In her art she explores ideas of body image, black-womanhood, sexuality, history, politics, and the environment through collages of carefully curated, recycled materials. In the age of lost media through censorship, suppression, and lack of access; acknowledging the power of storytelling through print, writing and visual art becomes a must.

In the age of lost media through censorship, suppression, and lack of access; acknowledging the power of storytelling through print, writing and visual art becomes a must. In her artistic process, Imeh Angela not only engages  in the physical performance art of preserving local journals, writings of minorities peoples, and stories lost to time behind walls of clear acrylic.

But the ceremony of reading the human perspective as she lays another small tile down in the mosaic of the collected consciousness reminds Imeh Angela that she will always be part of a bigger world.

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